Stress

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Stress Personality

• More than half of all visits to health care
  professionals are the consequence of
  stress-related disorders.

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Chronic Stress

• Compromises our health
• Has reached epidemic proportions
• Lifestyle modification is important

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Stress Management Information to Patients

• Must be Kept
• Simple
• Factual
• Sequential
• and Enjoyable

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Sustained Change in Stress/Health

• Can be attained only
• when people are empowered and motivated to change
  the quality of their lives in general and the
  quality of their health in particular.

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Stress Personality

• Listening to the Body
• Stress Somatizaton Headaches, pain around the
  neck, shoulders, lower back, chest, GI tract,
  immune suppression, insomnia, and chronic
  fatigue.
• Identify Your Stressful Events.

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Stress Personality

• Stress Effects the Musculoskeletal Symptoms
• Muscles Respond to Stress
• Muscle Contraction Headaches, TMJ, Shoulder and
  Neckaches

• Lower Backaches,
• Chronic Muscle Fatigue

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Fight or Flight Response

• Managing Flight or Fight Symptoms
• Sympathetic Parasympathetic
• Hypertension the role of suppressed anger and
  other mental states in hypertension

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Stress Personality

• Cardiac Symptoms
• Type A Personality and Behaviors
• Angina and Coronary Heart Disease
• Determine Your Hostility Level

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Stress Personality

• Migraine Headaches
• GI Symptoms abdominal pain, irritable bowel
  syndrome, and colitis.
• Stress Related Appetite stress hormones,
  hunger, bulimia and obesity.

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Stress Personality

• Managing Emotions that Produce Stress-Related
  Symptoms
• Anxiety and Panic
• Post Traumatic Stress
• Anger
• Depression

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Stress Personality

• Biobehavioral Approaches for Managing
  Stress-Related Symptoms
• Increasing Predictability and Control
• Revealing hidden stressors
• Identifying Priorities
• Limiting Exposure to stressful events
• Increasing Healthy Pleasures

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Stress Personality

• Biobehavioral Approaches, Continued
• Focused Relaxation Training
• Gateways to Muscle Relaxation
• Paced Breathing
• Focused Visualization
• Meditation
• Hypnosis
• Cognitive Restructuring

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Stress Personality

• Biobehavioral Approaches, Continued
• Somatic Therapies
• Aerobic and Anerobic Approaches to Mood Elevation
• Massage
• Therapeutic Touch

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Stress Personality

• Biobehavioral Approaches, Continued
• Cognitive Therapies
• Altering Thoughts (distorted beliefs, self-talk,
  and personal scripts)
• Reframing
• Use of Positive Self Talk
• Interpersonal Relationships

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Stress Personality

• Referral Sources
• Team Management
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Counselors
• EAP
• Spiritual